Man, I can't get enough of these videos on the oil field equipment. The satisfaction from fixing all this old American made machinery to keep it going another 100 years must be immense! Please keep the content coming.
Double chevron gears - how Andre Citroen made his money before manufacturing cars. The double chevron is still the Citroen Logo but is very rounded off nowadays.
Citroen's double helical gears were radiused in the corner between the two helices. Prior to this there had to be a gap to clear the cutting tool. Sunderland and Sykes were two British companies that patented double helical gear manufacturing methods with a sharp corner. Sykes' patent was use by Farrell in the US. Sykes was 1920 in the UK (1750029X) and 1930 in the US (US1750029A). Note that the latter took about 7 years to be accepted! I worked for Sykes in the late 1960s through to the mid 1970s. I think that this gear stems from one of these patents.
Ive watched several of your videos and its really interesting to know how these work and what it takes to maintain them, plus your explainations are excellent! Nice job my friend, work safe
Don’t get me wrong though I sure do like watching you work reminds me of the good old days when you just got in and got the job done I like seeing the sunset while you’re still working remind me how it used to be
I remember my grandfather always kept a few slugs of oil field shaft material around, they were a super hard high chrome, moly steel. I remember the neighbor had a little square bailer and the knife and knotter was always getting worn out and winding up in a tangle. He cut the new parts out of that shaft material and they are still bright and running 30 years later. Admittedly they mostly round bail hay now but they do cut and square bail straw in the fall for Halloween decorations.
Also for any of you that don't know how these pumps work. When the pump is up in the air it is sucking oil into the pipe. The ball that floats will drop down when the pump is at the neutral point. Then when the pump goes down it will push the oil to the surface.
Something I have noticed over the years in repair work When the person doing the repair is paid by the hour, they do almost everything with hand tools. When the person doing the repair is paid by the job, they have the biggest most hammer down power tools known to man. I'm lazy, so I charge by the job so I can get things done quicker. 😁
We had an old ball mill made in the 20's for a gold mine I worked at years ago. The bearings went out and the gears were worn bad. So they found an old guy out of Canada that had experience working on them. We removed the large pinion out, took it to the shop and ground all the sharp edges off reinstalled with new bearings, set the back last, wear pattern and preload it ran untill they shut it down in the early 90's.
Another reason I remember that very well is because when they brought the shaft to the shop and it was quiting time but mill maintenance was staying over working ot to get it fixed. They torched one of the double tapered roller bearings off and a guy was hitting it with a sledge hammer to finish breaking it free of the shaft. I was standing 2 bays away in a large shop with my lunch box in hand about to walk out to go home. When he swung the hammer one of the rollers from the bearing shot out like a bullet! I seen it coming about the time it hit me in the lip! So I went home with a fat lip and a good lesson that anything can happen when doing that kind of work. Ha!
Such a great channel! With your skillset, you will never go hungry. Not many people out there that have oil field knowledge, mechanical knowledge, can weld, can use a lathe, etc.
Awesome work! I really enjoy watching your oil field videos. I am up here in the Illinois Basin (Southeast Illinois and SW Indiana) and see a lot of these kind of pumpjacks. Some of ours are powered still by FM ZC208's, using gas from the field to operate. A lot are going to electric motors, however. Love those old ZC engines!! I'd love to see you work on a ZC 118, 208, or 346. Keep the oil field videos coming, their great!!
Interestingly I just picked up a 118 and a 208 that one of will be temporally put on a well to try out. When I get my rv done the oilfield is going to be the main focus of this channel.
@@TheZachLife Sounds great, Zach. I can't wait to see you put one of those on a well, that will be so neat! Love your work on the RV also, you have a great mechanical talent. i wish I had your knowledge and experience. Keep those videos coming, I so enjoy them.
That's what i was thinking. Machining that shaft would have been easier to use a grinder attachment instead of cutting with a tool. Every man has got his way and hey, this guy owns an oil well and I'm a pauper. Hats off to doing his own work - that's how I would do it.
Hi from sterling mi. Lots of wells up here in my area. I have no knowledge of what the guys I see driving around with buckets of big pipe wrenches do here. Thanks for the insight. Best wished
My dads shop was the lufkin repair shop for our area in Natchez Mississippi as well as plugging. He’s still in the business over in Magee Mississippi. He buys and sells equipment and consults.
Working in a power. House. We had all sorts of pumps and machinery. There was an old machinist who would spray metal on a worn bearing surface right in the lathe, of course he had a oxy/ acetylene torch to spray the metal on. I wonder if that would work for you, once it was set up all you need is ventilation:)
@@TheZachLife I asked my (damn good at it and wealthy) machine shop owner bro why they weld shafts instead of metal spray and he considered weld more reliable and a lot more comfortable to do. Their bread and butter is machine repair for paper mills so lots of shafting to fix/replace. Metal spray outfits often go cheap but I've never needed mine since welding works a treat and is easier to touch up.
Good example of a "Herring bone" gear. It has the strength of teeth contact and quieter operation of a helical gear, but the two opposing helical's, cancel out any thrust that a helical usually has. If you have a really hard metal, like stainless that is hard to cut on a lathe, get a grinder attachment.
I never spiral weld rebuilds, always straight runs across the diameter at 12 o'clock, 6 o'clock, 3 o'clock, 9 o'clock then inbetween but always opposite, spiral puts to much heat into the shaft and can cause it to go hard 👍
I set a mig in a tool post and built up a shaft from a spun bearing, then mounted an angle grinder to the tool post and ground it to size very tiny cuts by the end but it gets over tbe hardness issue
Thanks for doing these videos. Probably about 8 years ago I traveled a lot for employer and found my self quite often starting up drives on the pipelines in Texas. Drove past a lot of this kind of stuff. Always wondered how it all worked together. Cool..
I was with a freind who was showing me a new well being drilled it was a facinating process. Another well on the same property was currently pumping oil. The pump Jack was being powered by a Toyota Diesel engine. The fuel line appeared to be coming from the oil from the well. I never got to ask the company if that was the case. Does anyone know if that would work? Or do you think it was being run on actual diesel fuel? The well was a dry hole so it wasn’t a very happy ending. They drilled 1760’ into the Knox oil formation some oil was coming out with the drilling debris and then it was drilling into clean limestone. I really wish I saw it become a productive well. It was exciting though really enjoyed the atmosphere!!!
I have to wonder if you aren't work hardening the surface as you're cutting. Sometimes a deeper cut will get you past the work hardened outer material.
When cutting weld use a HS cutting bit? The inserts break every time they hit a lip were ya welded .Then finish with carbide if ya want .I was a 3rd year aprentist. Before I went to work for the government. Lol still have a small lathe in my garage
Those that say pull the lid on the gearbox probably don't realize how much grunt work is involved in doing so. Also a fair chance disturbing the decades old seals on the low speed shaft would get them started leaking and those aren't easy to replace. Best to leave the lid on a can of worms.
The pump has 2 check valves that are made up of a stainless steel ball and a seat that the ball seals against. The ball and seat are in a cage that looks like a small round bird cage that allows the ball to move and fluid to go by but no fall out. This well for whatever reason will "trash up" (industrial slang) where a piece a trash, rust, sand, or whatever will get in the cage between the ball and seat and hold the ball open so that the pump quits pumping. Whats actually hitting is the part of the pump that is attached to the rods called the plunger or the traveling valve (one of the valve described earlier) is going down and striking the standing valve (the other one). This hammering action will knock out any trash that is stuck in one of the ball and seats.
I once worked in factory and had to scrap hundreds of full size truck front hubs that had had centre holes drilled wrong place and welded up. Hub steel reacted with the rod and went glass hard. Had to scrap the lot. £1,000s down the drain.
@@xmachine7003 Company said not as it was UK truck with 40 tons load limit. Other company had centre drilled the hubs in a fixture without checking for alignmnet and metal allowance. I told boss that the spindle wasn't square with back plate but he claimed not to see it. I think we could have made a simple fixture to hold the spindle upright on milling m/c and then drilled out a new hole perhaps 75 though away but it wasn't done and they were all scrapped. Bosses aren't interested in initative.
I was thinking the same thing, I could never repair something like this, not that I couldn’t repair it I wouldn’t do it like that. I deal with farmers all the time in my business of hydraulic hose and trust me this is the mindset.
haha I recognize those gear boxes we have 2 running large bucket elevators in a century old grain elevator. Would have been easier to split the casing. it's a shame the original bearings failed was likely hyhat cartridge bearings as long as they have oil they last practically forever. They are hard I seals tho the gear its self controls the axial position within the gearbox tend to float around a little which tears out seals.
Well should of use the walking beam as a sky hook. Use a come along. Split the top half of case off and pulled the shaft up and out. Press off bearings and seals. Press on new, set shaft back in. Put back on lid. And back in business. With brake assemble also in tack!
The box has 16 2" bolts ( like 3-1/2 or so head) I wasn't interested in trying to remove those huge nuts. Also the crank arms would have to been partly pressed off to get the main bearing cap off as the cap bolts to the upper and lower half and the bolts are almost against the crank arms.
maibe use a surface grinder or toolpost grinder next time , would take more time but saves you a bunch in inserts allso to prevent the seal from burning up during the initial startup and kinda grind intoo shape a little smoother and not trowing the oil out before its settled put a dollop of bearing grease in between the seal and the bearing
That was my thought if you couldn't thoroughly flush the gear box, drain the oil then add a stack of magnets to the drain plug. I'm guessing you added the magnets while you had the shaft out so you could just drop them in? Simple solution. Every car I've owned I added a magnetic drain plug if it didn't already have be one. Plus it allows you some heads up if things are starting to go south
with that really hard shit on the lathe, sometimes it works best spinning it WAY too fast like, chip coming off bright red and sparking you do burn through inserts just the same, but it leaves a much better surface finish and since you're running a manual lathe you can resharpen the inserts on the bench grinder a few times before they get too small
I rebuild pump Jack gears boxes quit regularly. Next time just unbolt and pull your intermediate caps letting the intermediate drop and the high speed shaft will come right out . A lot of your herringbone gearboxes work that way . Definitely all Nationals and late model Lufkins .
This might be a stupid question but where are all the metal filings at that were in and around the bearing holders? Didn't a lot of them fall into the bottom of the case? And how do those bearings get lubricated?
Its goes through a water/oil separator and then to storage tanks. After that its picked up by truck and purchased from us by a "purchaser" to be pumped down a pipe line and sold to refineries or other oil using companies.
This is probably a mom and pop operation. Step on any big name oil lease and youll choke on rules and regulations. Makes it completely unenjoyable to get anything done.
@@TheZachLife thats true but you can first get the big uneven stuff first and then use the diamands ones to a finish cut ,i am cnc millingmachine operator
Could you tell me what is the manufacturer of the pump jack ??? The well must be deep as the shaft with a herringbone gear is really heavy duty for sure. How deep is the well Zach ??? Peace
Its an American 160. The well is 1590 feet. This sand is very wet and make a lot of water requiring a big pump and big unit. The gear box and whole unit is very overbuilt which is great but makes a lot of the new stuff look like toys.
I just recently found your channel and have gone back to these older videos to catch up on your story. Very interesting stuff. Seems like you have to be a Jack of all trades to do this work. Is this West Texas?
What sort of oil output do you see from a well pump like that?? Is the profit margin high enough to overcome the running cost and necessary repairs/maintenance? Just moved to TX and I see a lot of wells and pumps like that one. Great job on getting it DONE!
I wonder why they just didn't design it so the shaft and gear could slide out the side in the first place? By the way, I really like what I've seen of your videos. Thanks for making them. EDIT: Reading through the comments I can't understand why everyone was so gung ho to take the top of that case off.. I didn't see what you cut off the end of the shaft, but I can't imagine that it would have made it as easy to work in the lathe, seems like you did the right thing to me. Then all the complaining about all the bits of metal that fell in the case..they'll likely just sit. That case isn't gonna be bouncing around like an oil pan on a car, and anything that might churn up in the slow movement of the oil is gonna be tiny. Everything else is just gonna find somewhere comfortable in the case to retire for the next 100 years..
you obviously have never worked on or around anything like this. That low speed gear has about a 1/4 inch clearance between the bottom of the case and the gear. That metal that is suspended in the 80/90 weight gear oil (that is like tar in the winter) the oil is carried around by the gear and runs down channels on the side of the case and runs into the bearings to lubricate them. Even fine metal dust will act like sand paper and eventually prematurely wear out the bearings. This repair is what is known as hack repair job. I run an oil and gas company, we do all of these repairs on these types of units and I would fire him if this is what he did to one of our jacks. You NEVER should alter the machine from manufacturer specs let alone grind the shoulder for the outer race of the bearing.
Yes this is a very ridged machine. With a 1.25 boring bar you can have 10 inch overhang and have very little deflection at a 60 tho cut or so. I believe this was a 3/4 shank tool so you could get away with 4-5 inches if needed.
Man, I can't get enough of these videos on the oil field equipment. The satisfaction from fixing all this old American made machinery to keep it going another 100 years must be immense! Please keep the content coming.
Thanks thats the plan.
Double chevron gears - how Andre Citroen made his money before manufacturing cars. The double chevron is still the Citroen Logo but is very rounded off nowadays.
This is interesting. I didn't know.
Well you ruined everything for me... I always believed that their logo is a Christmas tree 😁
Citroen's double helical gears were radiused in the corner between the two helices. Prior to this there had to be a gap to clear the cutting tool. Sunderland and Sykes were two British companies that patented double helical gear manufacturing methods with a sharp corner. Sykes' patent was use by Farrell in the US. Sykes was 1920 in the UK (1750029X) and 1930 in the US (US1750029A). Note that the latter took about 7 years to be accepted! I worked for Sykes in the late 1960s through to the mid 1970s.
I think that this gear stems from one of these patents.
Woah really cool. Good comment.
That is fantastic info...Great for sharing it.
Fun fact, it's actually 100 years old now
its not really fun if you assume we cant do math.
@@gamerx112 well now you don't have to 🤷♂️
is that a New Edge in your picture?
You suck
@@gamerx112 hahahahaaa
Ive watched several of your videos and its really interesting to know how these work and what it takes to maintain them, plus your explainations are excellent! Nice job my friend, work safe
Thanks.
Don’t get me wrong though I sure do like watching you work reminds me of the good old days when you just got in and got the job done I like seeing the sunset while you’re still working remind me how it used to be
I am a retired mechanic, it is good to get back on a job with a man that knows what to do and how to do it. Thanks for the trouble to video.
Thanks 👍
I remember my grandfather always kept a few slugs of oil field shaft material around, they were a super hard high chrome, moly steel. I remember the neighbor had a little square bailer and the knife and knotter was always getting worn out and winding up in a tangle. He cut the new parts out of that shaft material and they are still bright and running 30 years later. Admittedly they mostly round bail hay now but they do cut and square bail straw in the fall for Halloween decorations.
Excellent video for a retired banker. You certainly earn your money for your experience. Looking forward to viewing more.
I worked for lacy oil tool this brings back memories rebuilt 100s of gearboxes
Also for any of you that don't know how these pumps work. When the pump is up in the air it is sucking oil into the pipe. The ball that floats will drop down when the pump is at the neutral point. Then when the pump goes down it will push the oil to the surface.
Something I have noticed over the years in repair work
When the person doing the repair is paid by the hour, they do almost everything with hand tools.
When the person doing the repair is paid by the job, they have the biggest most hammer down power tools known to man.
I'm lazy, so I charge by the job so I can get things done quicker. 😁
We had an old ball mill made in the 20's for a gold mine I worked at years ago. The bearings went out and the gears were worn bad. So they found an old guy out of Canada that had experience working on them. We removed the large pinion out, took it to the shop and ground all the sharp edges off reinstalled with new bearings, set the back last, wear pattern and preload it ran untill they shut it down in the early 90's.
Another reason I remember that very well is because when they brought the shaft to the shop and it was quiting time but mill maintenance was staying over working ot to get it fixed. They torched one of the double tapered roller bearings off and a guy was hitting it with a sledge hammer to finish breaking it free of the shaft. I was standing 2 bays away in a large shop with my lunch box in hand about to walk out to go home. When he swung the hammer one of the rollers from the bearing shot out like a bullet! I seen it coming about the time it hit me in the lip! So I went home with a fat lip and a good lesson that anything can happen when doing that kind of work. Ha!
Funny you mention the hardening of the shaft, I have also run into material that would case harden from the heat generated by the cutting tool.
Such a great channel! With your skillset, you will never go hungry. Not many people out there that have oil field knowledge, mechanical knowledge, can weld, can use a lathe, etc.
Thanks.
I'm not into oil stuff except for these antique machinery. Pretty cool that you were able to save it, they sure don't make things like they use to.
Believe it or not, most come from China now.
Very nice work!
Always fun to see those walking beam pump jacks running.
Awesome work! I really enjoy watching your oil field videos. I am up here in the Illinois Basin (Southeast Illinois and SW Indiana) and see a lot of these kind of pumpjacks. Some of ours are powered still by FM ZC208's, using gas from the field to operate. A lot are going to electric motors, however. Love those old ZC engines!! I'd love to see you work on a ZC 118, 208, or 346. Keep the oil field videos coming, their great!!
Interestingly I just picked up a 118 and a 208 that one of will be temporally put on a well to try out. When I get my rv done the oilfield is going to be the main focus of this channel.
@@TheZachLife Sounds great, Zach. I can't wait to see you put one of those on a well, that will be so neat! Love your work on the RV also, you have a great mechanical talent. i wish I had your knowledge and experience. Keep those videos coming, I so enjoy them.
Hi dean
I think since the housing is 2 pieces, I would’ve just separated the top of the case. I have one exactly like this one. 1949 model.
That's what i was thinking. Machining that shaft would have been easier to use a grinder attachment instead of cutting with a tool. Every man has got his way and hey, this guy owns an oil well and I'm a pauper. Hats off to doing his own work - that's how I would do it.
That is a pretty big can of worms, super sized if you will.
Definitely an old single reduction American pumping unit. That was a pretty dang good job. Making do with what you have to work with.
Thanks!
This video started with a cutting torch and I instantly knew this was my kind of repair lol
Haha
Hi from sterling mi. Lots of wells up here in my area. I have no knowledge of what the guys I see driving around with buckets of big pipe wrenches do here. Thanks for the insight. Best wished
I never knew oil wells could be so interesting
I just watched a man repair an oil well pump. And I don't know why but it was fascinating
haha that all that matters.
I've used speedy sleeves for the seal surface and had no problems with them
It's the easy way
I think this channel is gonna blow up, you've got the personality for making interesting content, that's fur sure.
Haha Thanks.
Brother this office has a hell of a view!
My dads shop was the lufkin repair shop for our area in Natchez Mississippi as well as plugging. He’s still in the business over in Magee Mississippi. He buys and sells equipment and consults.
Working in a power. House. We had all sorts of pumps and machinery. There was an old machinist who would spray metal on a worn bearing surface right in the lathe, of course he had a oxy/ acetylene torch to spray the metal on. I wonder if that would work for you, once it was set up all you need is ventilation:)
Im not sure. This is usually not as big of a deal.
@@TheZachLife I asked my (damn good at it and wealthy) machine shop owner bro why they weld shafts instead of metal spray and he considered weld more reliable and a lot more comfortable to do. Their bread and butter is machine repair for paper mills so lots of shafting to fix/replace. Metal spray outfits often go cheap but I've never needed mine since welding works a treat and is easier to touch up.
Good example of a "Herring bone" gear. It has the strength of teeth contact and quieter operation of a helical gear, but the two opposing helical's, cancel out any thrust that a helical usually has. If you have a really hard metal, like stainless that is hard to cut on a lathe, get a grinder attachment.
As,I believe,invented by Citroen,hence their logo.
I never spiral weld rebuilds, always straight runs across the diameter at 12 o'clock, 6 o'clock, 3 o'clock, 9 o'clock then inbetween but always opposite, spiral puts to much heat into the shaft and can cause it to go hard 👍
I set a mig in a tool post and built up a shaft from a spun bearing, then mounted an angle grinder to the tool post and ground it to size very tiny cuts by the end but it gets over tbe hardness issue
Your abilities are very impressive.
Great videos.
Thanks for doing these videos. Probably about 8 years ago I traveled a lot for employer and found my self quite often starting up drives on the pipelines in Texas. Drove past a lot of this kind of stuff. Always wondered how it all worked together. Cool..
I was with a freind who was showing me a new well being drilled it was a facinating process. Another well on the same property was currently pumping oil. The pump Jack was being powered by a Toyota Diesel engine. The fuel line appeared to be coming from the oil from the well. I never got to ask the company if that was the case. Does anyone know if that would work? Or do you think it was being run on actual diesel fuel? The well was a dry hole so it wasn’t a very happy ending. They drilled 1760’ into the Knox oil formation some oil was coming out with the drilling debris and then it was drilling into clean limestone. I really wish I saw it become a productive well. It was exciting though really enjoyed the atmosphere!!!
I have to wonder if you aren't work hardening the surface as you're cutting. Sometimes a deeper cut will get you past the work hardened outer material.
Good old fashion machinist/ mechanical repair. Well done 👍👍
Thanks 👍
Really really cool. Old American equipment 👍
When cutting weld use a HS cutting bit? The inserts break every time they hit a lip were ya welded .Then finish with carbide if ya want .I was a 3rd year aprentist. Before I went to work for the government. Lol still have a small lathe in my garage
Insanely impressive!!
Ever wish you had a cordless 1/2 in. Impact
Great metal work! Awesome!
4:23 It seams like at this point it would just be easier to disassemble the case you could use pulleys to lift the Caseing up
Probably
How much does a new pump jack cost?
Small jack compared to today. Probably only a depth of 800m also. 3/4 inch rods ? I used to be able to Spin those rods out real quick.
1600ft. 7/8 rods
Dude...great job...but dang it...I want to see the BLACK GOLD coming out the pipe.
Those that say pull the lid on the gearbox probably don't realize how much grunt work is involved in doing so. Also a fair chance disturbing the decades old seals on the low speed shaft would get them started leaking and those aren't easy to replace. Best to leave the lid on a can of worms.
Wow 1921!!! I wasn't even remotely thought about
Can someone explain the issue with the pump tagging the bottom ? thanks. great video
The pump has 2 check valves that are made up of a stainless steel ball and a seat that the ball seals against. The ball and seat are in a cage that looks like a small round bird cage that allows the ball to move and fluid to go by but no fall out. This well for whatever reason will "trash up" (industrial slang) where a piece a trash, rust, sand, or whatever will get in the cage between the ball and seat and hold the ball open so that the pump quits pumping. Whats actually hitting is the part of the pump that is attached to the rods called the plunger or the traveling valve (one of the valve described earlier) is going down and striking the standing valve (the other one). This hammering action will knock out any trash that is stuck in one of the ball and seats.
After your roughing cuts, could you use a tool post grinder for your finish?
I once worked in factory and had to scrap hundreds of full size truck front hubs that had had centre holes drilled wrong place and welded up. Hub steel reacted with the rod and went glass hard. Had to scrap the lot. £1,000s down the drain.
Couldn't re-heat treat and re temper after weld up?
@@xmachine7003 Company said not as it was UK truck with 40 tons load limit.
Other company had centre drilled the hubs in a fixture without checking for alignmnet and metal allowance.
I told boss that the spindle wasn't square with back plate but he claimed not to see it.
I think we could have made a simple fixture to hold the spindle upright on milling m/c and then drilled out a new hole perhaps 75 though away but it wasn't done and they were all scrapped.
Bosses aren't interested in initative.
Spray welding I feel might have been a better option
So how much oil does this well produce a day?
Could it be that the multiple weld passes annealed the shaft more than the single pass on the seal area? I'm a 30 yr welder fabricator from Ohio.
I was thinking the same thing, I could never repair something like this, not that I couldn’t repair it I wouldn’t do it like that. I deal with farmers all the time in my business of hydraulic hose and trust me this is the mindset.
Probably so. I bet it had something to do with the total amount of heat input was more on the part that had more weld and therefore cooled slower.
Try different inserts particularly for hard materials and a different insert shape like a CNMG
Thanks ill look into them
I worked on these 100 year old wells when they were just 60
Man that is awesome.
Happy birthday random oil well😊
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haha I recognize those gear boxes we have 2 running large bucket elevators in a century old grain elevator. Would have been easier to split the casing. it's a shame the original bearings failed was likely hyhat cartridge bearings as long as they have oil they last practically forever. They are hard I seals tho the gear its self controls the axial position within the gearbox tend to float around a little which tears out seals.
Well should of use the walking beam as a sky hook. Use a come along. Split the top half of case off and pulled the shaft up and out. Press off bearings and seals. Press on new, set shaft back in. Put back on lid. And back in business. With brake assemble also in tack!
The box has 16 2" bolts ( like 3-1/2 or so head) I wasn't interested in trying to remove those huge nuts. Also the crank arms would have to been partly pressed off to get the main bearing cap off as the cap bolts to the upper and lower half and the bolts are almost against the crank arms.
Why does that look like Throckmorton or Baylor county Texas?
Belt grinder. Nice job👍
I like your style man - I'm and old fart from the panhandle.
Thanks
maibe use a surface grinder or toolpost grinder next time , would take more time but saves you a bunch in inserts
allso to prevent the seal from burning up during the initial startup and kinda grind intoo shape a little smoother and not trowing the oil out before its settled put a dollop of bearing grease in between the seal and the bearing
comments like this remind me of repair forums from the early 2000s
I guess that’s one way to do it definitely not the proper way but one way!
why not? welding on material is pretty common no idea why he cut with those knife inserts the angle on them is way to small, also sanding is for noobs
Those metal filings in the oil will be working while we sleep.
After 2 years of running 24/7 they are either in the bottom of that huge gear box or stuck to the magnets I through in it.
That was my thought if you couldn't thoroughly flush the gear box, drain the oil then add a stack of magnets to the drain plug.
I'm guessing you added the magnets while you had the shaft out so you could just drop them in? Simple solution.
Every car I've owned I added a magnetic drain plug if it didn't already have be one. Plus it allows you some heads up if things are starting to go south
I’m just disappointed he didn’t face off those torch cut marks on the shaft while it was in the lathe
@@jessdigs I had the very same thought, I suppose it doesn't matter but would have looked cleaner
@@scottpecora371 exactly. Doesn't affect anything at all, but it was in the lathe already and one more operation to appease my OCD wouldn't hurt.
with that really hard shit on the lathe, sometimes it works best spinning it WAY too fast
like, chip coming off bright red and sparking
you do burn through inserts just the same, but it leaves a much better surface finish and since you're running a manual lathe you can resharpen the inserts on the bench grinder a few times before they get too small
Just wondering why your lathe tool bit id overhanging so much. Ckoke up on it and see more rigidity
Que unidad es según API?
You need a tool post grinder.
I agree.
I rebuild pump Jack gears boxes quit regularly. Next time just unbolt and pull your intermediate caps letting the intermediate drop and the high speed shaft will come right out . A lot of your herringbone gearboxes work that way . Definitely all Nationals and late model Lufkins .
I know it might be cold and those ultraviolet rays might be bad but I sure hate to see you’re running a Lathe with long sleeves on
This might be a stupid question but where are all the metal filings at that were in and around the bearing holders? Didn't a lot of them fall into the bottom of the case? And how do those bearings get lubricated?
nice work mate..where does the oil go once you pump it? we don't have private wells in aust
Its goes through a water/oil separator and then to storage tanks. After that its picked up by truck and purchased from us by a "purchaser" to be pumped down a pipe line and sold to refineries or other oil using companies.
@@TheZachLife awesome..i think its great little guys can have their own well..thanks.
Would you have any knowledge about a Continental Esco 60CD pumpjack motor?
Ala 1920-30s era? Any value? Weight 7500lbs? Close?
Thx in advance
I don't. I'm like the old gas engines but have't ever heard of a emsco engine
So different then up here in northern Canada, so many rules and regulations and sour gas in almost every well.
This is probably a mom and pop operation. Step on any big name oil lease and youll choke on rules and regulations. Makes it completely unenjoyable to get anything done.
How did you get all the shavings and metal dust from drilling out of the gear box?
Great job smart man
That repair last a life time
get industrial diamond inserts they work well for that
I have some kd1425. I really didn't think about it. In my experience they will not take a interrupted cut and just break off.
I also will ad that i know little about the diamond stuff and there maybe a better grade of inserts.
@@TheZachLife thats true but you can first get the big uneven stuff first and then use the diamands ones to a finish cut ,i am cnc millingmachine operator
@@TheZachLife carbide inserts with a flood coolant...
@@chrisjohnson4666 Wrong. Carbide inserts WITHOUT coolant will yield longer tool life. Thermal shock.
I must have missed the part where the cuttings were removed from the gearbox before the bearings were installed.
Didn't even drain the oil
@@TheZachLife dont be crying down the road
@@wtfhlostonparadise8278 that pump has made it 80 years so far...i bet he would find pounds of metal in the bottom at this point
Somebody get this man a ratchet
this "repair" gave me COVID, might as well thron some gravel in the box as well, hide the livestock as there's a butcher
Great job!!
Why not open the case and do it right?
with Citroen gears!
So where does this pump oil too?
Really cool video!
Could you tell me what is the manufacturer of the pump jack ??? The well must be deep as the shaft with a herringbone gear is really heavy duty for sure. How deep is the well Zach ??? Peace
Its an American 160. The well is 1590 feet. This sand is very wet and make a lot of water requiring a big pump and big unit. The gear box and whole unit is very overbuilt which is great but makes a lot of the new stuff look like toys.
@@TheZachLife Good manufacturing yesteryears.
@@TheZachLife Which companies made the best pump jacks ???? Thanks
@@TheZachLife I bet the water is worth a lot in the area for sure. Just amazing that their is oil all over the place. Nice work fella too.
Why not open it up? I dont get it.
Freash gear box oil ? Was that changed. . .? What weight ?
I just recently found your channel and have gone back to these older videos to catch up on your story. Very interesting stuff. Seems like you have to be a Jack of all trades to do this work. Is this West Texas?
Thanks. North texas.
Do u make money on it
What sort of oil output do you see from a well pump like that?? Is the profit margin high enough to overcome the running cost and necessary repairs/maintenance? Just moved to TX and I see a lot of wells and pumps like that one. Great job on getting it DONE!
This well makes about 6 bbl per day and is a good profitable well.
@@TheZachLife 6 barrels/day?
What do u do with the oil ? Where do u take it ?
Just curious why no light grease on seal lip and bearings?
I sprayed the bearing and seal with micro mist. This gearbox has no way to drain the oil so I just filled it up. 90wt.
@@TheZachLife surprised you didn't pump out old oil
Great video
Thanks
the reason it cut so bad is because of the stickout you have on that tool. i wold have had that cutter as close to the tool post as possible.
Nice job!
Thanks!
i am watching on feb 26 2021 and time passes ON......when did you read this??? best to everyone....it's beer time
feb 26 @11:30 and I agreeeeeee.
March 14th 2021 @11:38. I’m gonna join you for a beer
I wonder why they just didn't design it so the shaft and gear could slide out the side in the first place? By the way, I really like what I've seen of your videos. Thanks for making them.
EDIT: Reading through the comments I can't understand why everyone was so gung ho to take the top of that case off.. I didn't see what you cut off the end of the shaft, but I can't imagine that it would have made it as easy to work in the lathe, seems like you did the right thing to me. Then all the complaining about all the bits of metal that fell in the case..they'll likely just sit. That case isn't gonna be bouncing around like an oil pan on a car, and anything that might churn up in the slow movement of the oil is gonna be tiny. Everything else is just gonna find somewhere comfortable in the case to retire for the next 100 years..
I agree. It seems a lot of the gear boxes were build so they almost come apart but won't. Everyone always gets worked up on here lol.
you obviously have never worked on or around anything like this. That low speed gear has about a 1/4 inch clearance between the bottom of the case and the gear. That metal that is suspended in the 80/90 weight gear oil (that is like tar in the winter) the oil is carried around by the gear and runs down channels on the side of the case and runs into the bearings to lubricate them. Even fine metal dust will act like sand paper and eventually prematurely wear out the bearings. This repair is what is known as hack repair job. I run an oil and gas company, we do all of these repairs on these types of units and I would fire him if this is what he did to one of our jacks. You NEVER should alter the machine from manufacturer specs let alone grind the shoulder for the outer race of the bearing.
Could you overhang that turning tool a little more? Might try a negative rake toolholder next time and bring it up tight against the tool post.
Yes this is a very ridged machine. With a 1.25 boring bar you can have 10 inch overhang and have very little deflection at a 60 tho cut or so. I believe this was a 3/4 shank tool so you could get away with 4-5 inches if needed.
15:19.. why did you trap all that trash inside the seal?
helps keep the gears polished
So, how much oil have you pumped?
What you call the high speed gear we call a pinion since it drives a larger gear.....just say'n.
I agree. Calling it the high speed is a oilfield term. I'm not sure why but parts books call the smallest gear in the box the high speed gear.